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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






2. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






3. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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4. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






5. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






6. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






7. Open syllable






8. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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9. Whole body learning






10. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






11. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






12. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






13. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






14. Final stable syllable

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15. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






16. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






17. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






18. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






19. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






20. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






21. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






22. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






23. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






24. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






25. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






26. Individual Educational Plan






27. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






28. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






29. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






30. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






31. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






32. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






33. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






35. State Board of Eduation






36. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






37. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






38. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






39. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






40. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






41. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






42. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






43. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






44. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






45. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






46. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






47. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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48. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






49. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






50. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.